Last Modified: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 6:10 p.m.

In education, they teamed up with inner-city Democratic legislators on the Opportunity Scholarship Act, which provides the lowest income children the chance to escape the worst schools. They also streamlined the process for charter schools to get up and running.

They are passing a Voter ID law, joining the 34 states that already have one. Sadly, some on the left will keep screaming “voter suppression” on this topic, even though many states that have had such laws for decades (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, etc.) have patterns of minority voter turnout equal to or higher than North Carolina.

Overdue tax reform will give North Carolina the chance to become a job magnet as we have seen in Texas, Arizona and Ohio. Good-paying jobs are still the best social programs and the only sustainable way under the Obama “recovery” to grow tax receipts for investments in education and roads, which are strained after years of Hunt, Easley and Perdue raiding our trust funds and maxing out our debts to D.C. Please keep these and other reforms moving!

Robert Danos

Hendersonville

Insensitivity

To the editor: The political cartoon in the July 10 edition, depicting President Barack Obama at the controls of a distressed aircraft, is completely inappropriate in the wake of the Asiana Airlines disaster in San Francisco just four days prior.

Although the cartoon contains no direct reference to the Asiana crash, the connection seems quite clear, with content and timing required to maximize its derogatory intent. Score one (more) for political and media idiocy.

While I certainly do not expect discretion on the part of any political commentator, cartoonist or activist, I definitely do expect much better discretion and sensitivity from my hometown newspaper.

I hope the families of the two young girls killed in the crash, two very precious young lives, and the scores of injured do not believe that this kind of political insensitivity is something Americans tolerate.

Fred Lyda

Hendersonville

Train wreck

To the editor: On the Fourth of July, and I read the Declaration of Independence. The second paragraph begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. …” Further on in the document, the signers held forth certain facts, the first one of which states, “He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

Could this happen in America? It just did — again. Case in point can be found in the coming Obamacare train wreck as recognized by leading Democrats (Max Baucus). As a result, the 2014 elections are in grave jeopardy. Obama realizes this and, by executive fiat, delayed Section 1513 of the law as mandated by Congress to take effect Jan. 1, 2014. It now has been set back one year. It should be noted, however, that Section 1501 of the act (individual mandate) will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014, and every American is still being commanded to buy insurance or face a penalty (called a tax by the Supreme Court).

You may ask how Barack Obama can continually shred the law for his own purposes. He is able to do this when a significant segment of Americans continues to place personal good above the public good.

<p>To the editor: Thank you to our six-month-old Raleigh Republican majority, including Henderson County’s legislators  Sen. Tom Apodaca and Reps. Chuck McGrady and Chris Whitmire.</p><p>In education, they teamed up with inner-city Democratic legislators on the Opportunity Scholarship Act, which provides the lowest income children the chance to escape the worst schools. They also streamlined the process for charter schools to get up and running.</p><p>They are passing a Voter ID law, joining the 34 states that already have one. Sadly, some on the left will keep screaming voter suppression on this topic, even though many states that have had such laws for decades (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, etc.) have patterns of minority voter turnout equal to or higher than North Carolina.</p><p>Overdue tax reform will give North Carolina the chance to become a job magnet as we have seen in Texas, Arizona and Ohio. Good-paying jobs are still the best social programs and the only sustainable way under the Obama recovery to grow tax receipts for investments in education and roads, which are strained after years of Hunt, Easley and Perdue raiding our trust funds and maxing out our debts to D.C. Please keep these and other reforms moving!</p><p><em>Robert Danos</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>Insensitivity</h3>
<p>To the editor: The political cartoon in the July 10 edition, depicting President Barack Obama at the controls of a distressed aircraft, is completely inappropriate in the wake of the Asiana Airlines disaster in San Francisco just four days prior.</p><p>Although the cartoon contains no direct reference to the Asiana crash, the connection seems quite clear, with content and timing required to maximize its derogatory intent. Score one (more) for political and media idiocy.</p><p>While I certainly do not expect discretion on the part of any political commentator, cartoonist or activist, I definitely do expect much better discretion and sensitivity from my hometown newspaper.</p><p>I hope the families of the two young girls killed in the crash, two very precious young lives, and the scores of injured do not believe that this kind of political insensitivity is something Americans tolerate.</p><p><em>Fred Lyda</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>Train wreck</h3>
<p>To the editor: On the Fourth of July, and I read the Declaration of Independence. The second paragraph begins, We hold these truths to be self-evident.  Further on in the document, the signers held forth certain facts, the first one of which states, He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</p><p>Could this happen in America? It just did  again. Case in point can be found in the coming Obamacare train wreck as recognized by leading Democrats (Max Baucus). As a result, the 2014 elections are in grave jeopardy. Obama realizes this and, by executive fiat, delayed Section 1513 of the law as mandated by Congress to take effect Jan. 1, 2014. It now has been set back one year. It should be noted, however, that Section 1501 of the act (individual mandate) will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014, and every American is still being commanded to buy insurance or face a penalty (called a tax by the Supreme Court).</p><p>You may ask how Barack Obama can continually shred the law for his own purposes. He is able to do this when a significant segment of Americans continues to place personal good above the public good.</p><p><em>Ken Rash</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p>